Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:45:54 -0700

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 02:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > commit 5f17cfce5776c566d64430f543a289e5cfa4538b
> > > 
> > >     PCI: fix pbus_size_mem() resource alignment for CardBus controllers
> > 
> > Is this worth backporting into 2.6.26.x?
> 
> It's certainly at least *potentially* -stable material, but because I 
> suspect that the whole yenta_allocate_resources() -> pci_setup_cardbus() 
> fallback code will end up resulting in a working setup, it may not be 
> worth it.  At least not until we've heard from more people..
> 
> Can you check whether your vortex cardbus thing _works_ even without the 
> fix?
> 

Working on it, but got distracted by a /proc/net bug.

sony:/home/akpm> ifconfig -a
Warning: cannot open /proc/net/dev (Permission denied). Limited output.
Warning: cannot open /proc/net/dev (Permission denied). Limited output.
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:4A:9F:7C:79  
          inet addr:192.168.2.10  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

Warning: cannot open /proc/net/dev (Permission denied). Limited output.
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

sony:/home/akpm> ls -l /proc/net/dev
ls: /proc/net/dev: Permission denied

sony:/home/akpm> ls -l /proc/net
ls: /proc/net: Permission denied

sony:/home/akpm> ls -ld /proc/net
ls: /proc/net: Permission denied

sony:/home/akpm> ls -l /proc | grep net
?---------  ? ?         ?                 ?            ? /proc/net

This is a pull of your tree from yesterday, ending at

commit fbb16e243887332dd5754e48ffe5b963378f3cd2
Author: Thomas Gleixner <[email-masked]>
Date:   Wed Sep 3 00:54:47 2008 +0200

    [x86] Fix TSC calibration issues

config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
dmesg: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-sony-without.txt